DeJoy Tells Judge Mail-Sorting Machines Can’t Be Reassembled
- USPS asks that order undoing service changes be modified
- States allege DeJoy is trying to interfere with mail-in voting
Louis DeJoy listens during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24.
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a judge the U.S. Postal Service can’t reassemble the hundreds of high speed mail-sorting machines that were taken apart this year, a project that more than a dozen states allege was intended to undermine the upcoming election.
A nationwide injunction issued last week in Yakima, Washington, should be amended to acknowledge that the machines can’t be put back together, DeJoy and the USPS said in a filing in the case on Wednesday. The machines, dismantled under a DeJoy initiative, were stripped for parts to improve or repair other machines, they said.